Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice
CONTEMPORARY ART HISTORY Professor: Gloria Wallis
a) Mark Wallinger
Mark Wallinger was born in 1959, works with painting, sculpture, video, installations, photography, plumbing codes of behavior, values, ideologies, faith, a complex and varied set of elements defining the British identity.
His art is characterized by the ability to detect visual symbols and to manipulate them, mainly in the key of a biting and often tragic irony.
studied, like many of his fellow Young British way of Generation at the Chelsea School of Art and then at Goldsmiths College. Finalist for the Turner Prize in 1995, the artist took part in all the exhibitions, more or less canonical, young British artists, who in the nineties have been able to count on a critical situation and strongly supports market. Of particular relevance
its passage at the Venice Biennale in 2001, as an artist to represent Britain in the national pavilion. A compact and memorable show, which included the following four items:
* 1. Ecce Homo, 1999. Marbled white resin, gold leaf, wire
Ecce Homo, Wallinger's sculpture in marble installed in 1999 on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in London, causing a stir in Venice was the center of the exhibition.
The figure of Christ is identified in the crown of thorns, hands bound, and the stylized cloth that surrounds the sides and the cast is taken from a human body much whatever, and they lack the long hair and beard characteristic of the traditional.
Another important pole of the pavilion was the projection Threshold to the Kingdom (the title contains a pun, literally, "Threshold of the Kingdom", do not know if the Kingdom of Heaven or of Great Britain) is a film sequence, very slow and accompanied by a striking sacred music, the arrival, the movie seamlessly, and projected in a loop, its passengers to London City Airport. "International Arrivals" reads the inscription above the door through which passengers enter.
Their expressions of curiosity and hope, of enchantment, alluding to a passage in one entry into a new life. There is an ironic mystic sense, but also a more emotional and direct human involvement in the unstoppable flow of the characters.
* 2. Threshold to the Kingdom, 2000, video installation
* 3. Angel, 1997, video installation
The protagonist is Blind Faith, Blind Faith, a character played by the same Walliger which makes it look more of a work. This is a blind man with dark glasses and white cane, walking in place, going down the stairs of the subway and repeating in a peremptory tone and monotonous, like those who repeat by heart the verses of the Prologue of John's Gospel. His insistent march, as well as his reads empty and repetitive, is not that steady it on the spot, while others, who observe curiously, they move backwards.
* 4. Ghost, 2001.
It 's a negative print of the famous portrait of the horse Whistlejacket, the generous Englishman George Stubbs (1724-1806).
The artist has added a horn on his forehead, turning nell'unicorno rearing that appears along with the lion on one side of the British royal coat of arms.
A set of symbols that appear as X-rays of different passions peculiar to the British people, horses (and their most famous portraits, inevitable in the great British art collections), the monarchy.
the Venice Biennale in 2005, Wallinger was present with the video Sleeper: effective representation, implemented by the same artist disguised as a bear, the disorientation caused by the architecture of the Neue Nationalgalerie cold Berlin by Mies van der Rohe. Alone, bewildered, the bear moves a few steps, seems to seek out, discouraged crouches against a wall.
* 5. Sleeper, 2004-2005, video
http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue9/captiveaudience.htm
In 2007, Mark Wallinger won the Turner Prize, one of the most prestigious European awards for the visual arts . The Turner Prize is especially important for the recognition of British contemporary painting and is given every year since 1984 to an artist who has over 50 years and working in Britain. Wallinger has been recognized, and the check for 35 million euro that accompanies it, for anti-war installation inspired by a well known activist in London, Brian Haw, who in protest against the foreign policy of the British government for over six years it has been established in Parliament Square. Brian Haw, 56, began in June 2001 to "stick with a megaphone and banners bearing the names and photos of dead children" policy on Iraq. With the passing years, the British and not only started to support it.
Entitled "State Britain", the installation is an exact replica of the 40 meters of the dissenting camp - Haw peace has really made before the British Parliament. The work reproduces exactly every detail of forty feet signs removed, solidarity messages, documents, pictures of victims of bombings and everything set up in front of the seat of Parliament Square.
http://www.journalbooks.it/modules/news/article.php?storyid=204
Bibliography
addition to the links already mentioned in the text, see:
http://en.wikipedia. org / wiki / Mark_Wallinger
H. Szeeman (eds.), Plateau of Humankind, Catalogue of 49.Esposizione International Art Biennale of Venice, Milan, Electa, 2001
project on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London:
http:// www.london.gov.uk / fourthplinth / plinth / rsa.jsp
On Wallinger in Milan at Hangar Bicocca in September 2005, with the work Easter:
http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1127298858&day=1127340000
The project for the giant sculpture of a horse Ebbsfleet, Kent (UK):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/4613060/Mark-Wallinger-the-inspiration-behind-my- horse.html
http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1198251014&day=1199746800
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/ 4599446/Mark-Wallingers-white-horse-is-a-winner.html
http://news.isc.vn/en/arts-culture-spend/wallingers-horse-statue-stalled-as-cost-soars -fivefold-to-15-8-million.html
Wallinger exhibition curator:
http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/mark-wallinger-curates/
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